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A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds

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Radical history online – a list of collections

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Communist Party of Australia’s Rupert Lockwood on the Common Market (c.1961)

March 31, 2018 hatfulofhistory

The Poll Tax ‘Riot’: Thatcher, the Met and its aftermath

May 22, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Archives of political extremism in Australia: A short guide

April 2, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Archiving the left – CPGB’s ‘Racism: How to Combat It’ (1978)

February 27, 2017 hatfulofhistory

ASIO memo on Germaine Greer from 1971

January 21, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Some highlights from the CIA’s recent document dump online

January 10, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Policing football crowds and the aftermath of Hillsborough: What the new Thatcher papers reveal, pt 2

December 31, 2016January 5, 2017 hatfulofhistory

Policing Acid House Parties in 1989: What the new Thatcher Government papers reveal

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A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University
Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book
Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination
CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century

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A new piece about historians’ weird archival finds
A few weeks ago, I put out a simple tweet about what made historians go ‘wait, wut?’ while doing research and got hundreds of replies. The Conversation has published a piece by me reflecting on some of the stories that I got from other historians. You can find it here.
The BNP and the hijacking of the Free Speech Society at Leeds University
In the House of Commons yesterday, the Tories’ Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill was debated. Labour MP Alex Sobel, who attended Leeds University, told the story of Mark Collett and Chris Beverley, who were BNP members that tried to overturn the ‘no platform’ policy at Leeds in the early 2000s, via the Free Speech […]
Collected reviews of ‘No Platform’ book
My book, No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech, has been out for a year and has been reviewed in several publications. I thought I’d collect them here, particularly as they’re an easy reference point for me then. Review by Nick Hillman in Times Higher Education. Mike Makin-Waite, ‘Controversial […]
Marxism and football at the 1966 World Cup: How North Korea captured a socialist imagination
Ever since the English football team was denounced for taking the knee by some right-wing pundits, who claimed that this was a symbolic action of the ‘Marxist’ Black Lives Matter movement, the meme of the English players as revolutionary Marxists has become widespread. Since English football has embraced Marxism, it has been memed, football is […]
CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century
Here is a call for papers that I am involved with. “Imperialism and its agents must be destroyed”: Australian Workers and Anti-Colonialism in the twentieth century 3-4 February, 2022 Online symposium (via Zoom) Keynotes: Professor Ann Curthoys (Sydney) & Professor John Maynard (Newcastle) The Australian working-class movement has a mixed history of inter […]

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